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#war

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We shall defend our island, whatever the cost may be, we shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#beaches #cost #defend #fields #fight

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#attended #bodyguard #lies #precious #she

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks you not to kill him. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#fails #him #kill #man #prisoner

There's no way out," he announced with satisfaction, "and no amount of wishful dreaming will produce one. The demon won't go back in its bottle, the face-off is for ever, the embrace gets tighter and the toys cleverer with every generation, and there's no such thing for either side as enough security. Not for the main players, not for the nasty little newcomers who each year run themselves up a suitcase bomb and join the club. We get tired of believing that, because we're human. We may even con ourselves into believing the threat has gone away. It never will. Never, never, never." "So, who'll save us then, Walt?" Barley asked. "You and Nedsky?" "Vanity, if anything will, which I doubt," Walter retorted. "No leader wants to go down in history as the ass who destroyed his country in an afternoon. And funk, I suppose. Most of our gallant politicians do have a narcissistic objection to suicide, thank God. ↗


— John le Carré


#nuclear-weapons #russia #spy #war #dreams

When you are winning a war almost everything that happens can be claimed to be right and wise. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#claimed #everything #happens #right #war

When the war of the giants is over the wars of the pygmies will begin. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#begin #giants #over #pygmies #wars

Politics are very much like war. We may even have to use poison gas at times. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#gas #like #may #much #poison

In war as in life, it is often necessary when some cherished scheme has failed, to take up the best alternative open, and if so, it is folly not to work for it with all your might. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#best #cherished #failed #folly #life

War is mainly a catalogue of blunders. ↗


— Winston Churchill


#catalogue #mainly #war

A good question is never answered. It is not a bolt to be tightened into place but a seed to be planted and to bear more seed toward the hope of greening the landscape of idea. ↗


— John Ciardi


#bear #bolt #good #hope #idea






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